It is the first day of November in election year 2016 and we have exactly one more week until the climax of the most expensive and definitely the most trying and tiring election cycle in the History of the Republic to date. The past sixteen or so months has been a seemingly never ending public…
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Documentary Film Review: TrumpLand
A mere eleven days before the 2016 General Election, the latest work of documentary filmmaker Michael Moore opened at Tulsa’s Circle Cinema. In TrumpLand, Mr. Moore focuses little on the GOP candidate himself and mostly on the the voters who support him and why. He also thoroughly discusses the history of Hillary Rodham Clinton and…
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2016 Oklahoma Ballot Questions: Know the Issues
My dear brothers, sisters, readers of Reason Rest Stop and only friends, it is mid-October and we are in the home stretch of a marathon election cycle. So much has been said about most of the candidates on the November ballot that there seems little remaining on which to comment. Here in Oklahoma along the…
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Tulsa: Namesake of a ship of the line once again
Having served aboard a ship of the line during my first enlistment in the U.S. Navy, names of sister vessels have stuck in my memory. I served aboard a Charles F. Adams class guided missile destroyer for roughly two and a half years. These and other small combatant vessels of that era known as frigates…
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The American dichotomy, up close and personal
My dear brothers, sisters, readers of Reason Rest Stop and only friends, this has been another of those weeks where I have stopped myself more than once from writing my commentary in an effort to allow a story to fully evolve. The fact of the matter is that this is a very trying time to…
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Losing our fear of fierce and polished opposition
The 2016 General Election is now a mere eight weeks away and campaign season is getting ginned up full tilt. Having been out knocking doors for a state house candidate, I found most voters on my assigned list had no clue as to who is running for what or what is really going on in…
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Shaken to our core: Making the case for regime change
On this Labor Day Holiday when we should be celebrating our working class roots and remembering those who fought, bled and died for the rights of all working people, we here along the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66 are reeling and regrouping from a very sobering weekend. Forget the fact that our beloved…
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Welcome Congressman Castro!
Here we are with some 67 days left until the November General Election and all the Democratic candidates I know, have donated coin to and for whom I have been out knocking doors, all sense a great dissatisfaction with incumbency along this the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66. Many were present on Thursday…
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The appeal of a narcissist—one year later
It was exactly one year ago that I authored a post on this blog to which I have since made frequent reference: At the time there were some sixteen other candidates in the running for the GOP nomination. One year later Mr. Donald J. Trump is the GOP nominee. Most reasonable third party observers…
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Documentary Film Review: Eat That Question–Frank Zappa in his own words
Ever since that magical time in my youth when I acquired an eclectic taste for not only his music but the dark humor and excoriating social commentary of Frank Zappa, I have often retreated into my happy place where I keep my personal altar to one of my favorite musical and messaging geniuses. Of all…
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